David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Prairie Wildflowers and Butterflies at an Interstate Rest Area in Iowa. Images taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 24 mm f/1.4 lens or a Nikon D3x camera and 80-400 mm VR lens.
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I went out for a walk in the Sourland Mountain Preserve this morning looking for butterflies. This Painted Lady was the only one I saw. There were lots of dragonflies, and praying mantis laying in wait for a butterfly. The real comment is that I took this image with a hand-held camera that weighs 1/10 and costs 1/10th of the kit I have used before. The image may not be as good what I could get with the full kit – but easily good enough. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V3 camera and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 160, 300 mm, f/8, 1/320 sec).
